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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20
TYPHOID FEVER.

The following, from a circular recently
issued by the State board of health.
should prove of value in preventing the
spread of this disease:
The main source of typhoid fever is the
drinking water. Hence whenever a
case of this disease occurs it is the duty
of the selectmen. or other proper author
ity, TO examine the condition of all public
water supplies, and especially that of the
family in which the patient is. The sew
ers and drainage should also be eXamin-
ed. The contagious principle is contain
ed solely in the eXcrementitious matters
coming from the bowels of the patient.
If these excavations are thoroughly dis
infected and buried in the ground there
can be no risk of the disease spreading.
OF curse if the patient has discharges
while in an unconscious or stupid condi-
ton, or if by accident the body linen or
the bedclothes should be soiled, these
must be Immediately changed and disin-
fected. The eXcrements must be buried
so far from any well, spring or other
source of drinking water that there shall
be no possibility of their teaching through
the soil into the water which may after
wards be used. Typhoid fever is not
transmissible through the atmosphere
surrounding the patient. or even by ac-
tual contact with the body of the patient.
Hence isolation is not necessary, and no
restrictions need be placed upon the in
tercourse of the family. Unless soiled
by the discharges from the bowels it can,
not be transmitted into other places by
clothing or other articles.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20

On the farm of John Guinther, in Rock
land township, Berks county, Pennsyl-
vania, a chestnut tree was recently cut
down, which for size is probably not ex-
celled in the state. 1t measured 40 IL
feet in circumference. 10 feet , inches
across the butt, and yielded twelve cords
of firewood. 1t was solid to the core vet,
and only last season a crop of about
three and one-half bushels of chestnuts
was secured from it. The concentric
rings in the wood were clearly marked,
and possessing an inquiring mind the
owner counted them. and this established
the fact that the tree sprung up from the
parent chestnut about $50 years ago. The
most remarkable fact in connection with
the old forest monarch, however, was the
discovery, in splitting it up, of a small
hollow metal tube solidly imbedded in the
wood of the trunk about three feet inward
from the outer surface, and which upon
examination was found to contain a strip
of paper on which was written with ink
in German, the following inscription:
Johann Jacob Walter. T%ubingen. King
dom of Wurtenber, Ammo l16J.' The
supposition is that the tubs was for some
mysterious purpose hid in the tree when
of ordinary size by boring into it with an
augur and then plugging it up, and that
afterwards the puncture was grown over.
Philadelphia Call.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20
Sarm Copies.
BUTTER MAKING AT FARM
PIE

The Ontario agricultural college gives
the following Instructions for this kind
of butter production:
l.. Good ventilation for the milk house,
milk cellar, or dairy is most essen
tial, and may be provided for by leading
an air drain underground for, say, 300
feet. Through it a supply of pure, fresh,
cool air may be admitted. The foul or
warm air may be allowed to escape
through ventilators or windows in or
near the ceiling.
,. Cream should invariably be remov-
ed from the milk before the milk is sour.
3. The cream for each churning should
be gathered into and kept in one vessel.
1. The whole of the cream should he
well stirred every time fresh cream is
added.
>. In ummer. cream should not be
left longer than three days before churn-
ing.
&. The best churning temperatures are
between o. and Coz during summer,
anu ~ anu VI UuIllS llt
winter.
q Butter can be more thoroughly
washed free from butter-milk while in
the granular condition than after it is
gathered or pressed into Il roll.
5. Only the best pure salt of medium
f%ineness of grain should be used, and
from three-quarters to one ounce of
salt per pound of butter will be found
satisfactory for the summer.
9. The utmost cleanliness in milking.
in vessels. in utensils. and in all surround
ings must be observed to preserve the
flavor and body of milk. cream. butter
and cheese from contamination.
The same authority uses the following
general rules:
|. Milk from healthy COWS should be
used, and not until at least four days
after calving.
,. Any harsh treatment that eXcites
the COW lessons the quantity and Injuries
the quality of her yield.
3. Cows should be allowed an abund-
ant supply of wholesome, suitable food,
and as much pure water as they will
drink.
4. \ supply of salt should be placed
where the COWS have access to it every
day.
). Cows should not be permitted to
drink stagnant, impure water. nor to eat
cleanings from horse stables. leeks. tur-
nip tops, nor anything thar would give
the milk an offensive faint.
e. All milk vessels should be thorough
ly cleansed: first being well washed, then
scaldcd with boiling water. and after
wards sufficiently aired to keep them per-
fectly sweet.
:. Cows should be MIXED with dry
hands. and only after the udders have
been washed or well brushed.
:. Milking should be done and milk
should be kept only where the surround
ing air is pure and free from all objection
able and tainting odors. Milking in Il
foul smelling stable or yard imparts to
milk an injurious faint. o whey should
never be fed, nor should hogs be kept in
Il milking yard. or near a milk stand.
.. Tin pals only should be used.
10. All milk should be properly strain
ed. Immediately after milking, and for
that purpose detached s%trainer is prefer
able to Il s~trainer pail.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20
HOME MIXED VS.. COMMERCIAL
FERTILIZERS.

The average selling price of 60 super
phosphates analysed by the Connecticut
experiment station in 1856 was S3G.5S;
the average station valuation S29.42; the
difference SIG, or a little over "a per
cent. Now let us contrast this with a
home mixed superphosphate, also an
alyzed by the station. 1t was mixed by
&. +. Pratt of Milford, Conn, and there
was nothing about The work that any
careful and intelligent farmer could not
do upon his own barn floor. Mr.. Pratt
bought $4,000 lbs. of material. divided as
follows:
Dissolved bone black, 1900 lbs.
Blood and bone, 1900 lbs.
Muriatc of potash, 1000 lbs.
Sulphatc OF ammonia, 1000 lbs.
The station analyst, showed that these
materials, when mixed together, made a
fertilizer prOportioned thus:
Nitrogen, $50 per cent.
Phosphoric acid available, s.Gd per cent.
%Phosphoric acid i%nsolublc, - per cent.
Potash, 927 per cent.
The cost of this fertilizer (including
freight, 81, and mixing 81, per tom was
SOB per ton. and the station valuation Ssh
d per ton, or six per cent more than the
cost. In this way the farmer got paid
for his work in mixing, and gained 30 per
cent between the value of his hOme-miXed
fertilizer and the price of an average
manufactured article net gain of 50 IA
ton OF SOL on the six tons. 1t will be motto
ed that this fertilizer was so proportional
as to be unusually rich in nitrogen and
potash, and it was probably used for
growing tobacco. For ordinary farm
crops IA much better formula would have
been:
Dissolved ;. c. rock, 5000 lbs.
Muriate of potash, 1000 lbs.
Sulphate OF ammonia, 1900 lbs.
This would have reduced the cost at
least 81 per ton more, and have given a
fertilizer better proportional for potatoes,
corn, oats and other grains. An equally
good fertilizer, and better for grass seed
ing, could be made by using 1900 pounds
of a pure fine ground bone in place of the
dissolved rock, but it would not be quite
so quick, perhaps, in a dry season.-Ver
mOnter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20
Che Pou=eholo.
USEFUL HINTS:

From Good Cheer and the Ladies' Journal.
To produce a good gloss on linen. pour
Il pint of boiling water upon two ounces
of gum arabic, cover, and let stand over
night add a spoonful to the starch.
To remove kerosene from Il carpet, lay
blotters or soft brown paper over the
spot and press with a warm iron. Re
peat with fresh papers till the spot is re-
moved.
Two ounces of soda dissolved in a
quart of hot water will make a useful
solution for cleaning old painted work
preparatory to repainting. This mix
ture. in the above proportion, should be
applied when warm, and the woodwork
afterward washed with water to remove
all traces of soda.
Sing to your children. if YOU can turn
II tune. 1t is worth your while to cult
waite your voice now. if you never did it
before. Nowhere else-perhaps not
even in hcaven-will you have such low
ing and generous audience.
1t is a great mistake to clean brass ar
ticles with acid. "a they very soon be-
come duh after such treatment. Sweet
oil and putty powder. followed by soap
and water. is one of the best mediums
for Frightening brass and copper.
Fine wood cabinets should be wiped
out with IA soft cloth the corners especial
" may be brushed with a small hair whisk
If the surface has been polished and i,
grown dull with age or use. a very little
linseed oil on "A woollen rag may be-
used to 90 over it.
If your tlat-irons are rough or rusty
place IA little fine salt upon a flat surface
and rub them over it.
Hot dry t%lannels applied to the fac,
and neck are an effective remedy for &
dumping toothache."
OF all the geraniums, be sure and have
some of the scented-leafed ones. They
are thrifty growers and are never both
cred by insects of any description.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20

At the coronation of King Kalakaua.
in 1883, he o the royal mantle of Ka-
mehameha |, one of the most superb
emblems of royalty ever worn by king or
kaiser. As may be supposed, it is care
fully kept at the palace. 1t is IA semi
circular cloak about four feet in length,
covering an area of twenty-five square
feet when spread out, and it is made of
the small, golden hued feathers of the
90. These feathers. each about the size
of ones little finger nail, are fastened to
a fine network of fiber made from the
bark of the olona. OVERLAPPING each other.
There are at least 5000 of these feathers
used in the cloak; there are but two
taken from each bird, which have to be
SHARED in the dense woods, the feathers
plucked and the birds released: it was a
crime to kill them. The birds are by no
means abundant, necessarily the value of
the cloak is very great, and the keeping
of it in order an endless task. This man
tie is worn only by the reigning sovereign.
There are shorter capes and cloaks worn
by allies or chiefs, their length being reg
ulated by the rank of the wearer.-Hon-
olulu Cor. Cleveland Leader.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20
Sheep 1nterest.
GETTING RID OF TICKS.
From the National Stockman.

A subscriber in Clinton county, o.,
writes "Please publish in your next
issue some of your best plans for eXter-
minating sheep ticks, as it is now about
sheep shearing time and the time to de-
stroy these detestable parasites on sheep
and lambs
There are numbers of dips manufacture
ed for the purpose of Kidding sheep of
ticks, some of which are now doubt mcii-
torious. We always hesitate about select
ing any of these to especially recommend,
for the reason that an occasional flock
master, failing in some way in their proper
application. finds them disastrous. We
have now in mind the case of an old friend
who has had Just this experience with a
dip which scores of the best sheepmen of
all this region heartily endorse. We be-
lieve however, that, properly used. a
good dip is the best recourse of a shep-
herd whose flocks are annoyed with ticks.
Many of the dips contain tobacco, and
many lOck-masters have found a strong
decoction of tobacco of their own prepar-
alton very eflicacious. From to 10
pounds of plug tobacco chopped fine and
boiled is usually enough for 100 lambs.
Arsenic enters largely into some Of the
modern dips, and does its work through
ly. but is dangerous if not properly ham
died. 1t is cheaper than tobacco, and is
coming into more general use. Randall
recommends three pounds of white ar
senic powder dissolved in six gallons of
boiling water, forty gallons of cold water
added, and all well stirred. The prepar-
alton, the dipping box. etc, must be
placed where stock cannot get at them,
and in dipping the sheep the mouth and
noStrils must not be Immersed plan
which can be safely followed in handling
all dips.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20

We first went to the receiving room,
where the fresh milk is delivered by the
farmer and is at once poured through a
fine strainer INTO large copper watts; is car
ried thence by means of pipes into large
copper wells, situated in one of the lower
rooms; here it is boiled, and from thence
to a small copper well where the finest
grades of refined sugar are added, and
then strained into another web, from
which it is taken to the vacuum or con-
densing room above. The milk is here
condensed by a very low temperature in
these pans; at times made to boil at q
temperature as low as 1870 dogs. The
milk in its condensed form is carried to a
lower apartment again. where it is put
into larger watts in cans of ten gallons
each. and with apparatus kept in a re-
volving motion. the milk is cooled to a
temperature of about 20 dogs. From this
room the milk is transported on "A car to
the canning room; here it is poured into
the filling machine, which sends the milk
into the ans ready for sealing. The cans
weigh one pound each and retail at from
fifteen to eighteen cents. The cans are
sent to the shipping rOom where they are
carefully packed in boxes holding four
dozen each. The milk is used for all the
ordinary purposes that pure sweet milk
is used; FOR table use; for the traveller on
sea as well as land. and is prescribed by
physicians as a nice and delicate food for
infants. | need only say the company
makes its own cans and boxes.
The factory gives employment to 1876
persons, over half of whom are attractive,
white aproned girls; it buys from 1S4
farmers "A daily average of $4,000 quarts
of milk-the milk being produced by
$500 COW feeding on about 81, 900
acres of land. The sugar used is about
thirty-five barrels per day, or one barrel
to every 1000 gallons of milk. Cleanli-
ness is strictly observed in the factory,
and nothing of acid or solid nature is
used in the process of condensing the milk
that will not admit of a close and rigid
medical test.-Cor. Hartford Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20
Monstrosities on Women,s Heads.

There is 10 monstrosity that women
have not adopted for the adornment of
their heads. Horn, both double and
~single-the one like a unicorn, the other
like a buffalo; Tapping frills and stifrened
wings, tight drawn cloths, hiding all
beauty of hair and flesh; floating wells
and ponderous turbans; buckram and
artificial flowers; feather and lace and
sparkling gems; structural caps and arti-
fetal bonets; corkscrew ringlets, had by
torture of paper screws; short curls and
wavelets, had by that of crimping pins
and irons; artificial plaits, cut from "a
dead girls head; tow stuffed chignons,
wigs and wiglets--there is no end to the
hist of artificial aids with which lovely
woman has done her best to nullify her
natural beauty by substituting the follies
of fashion for individual suitability
The Forum.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20

1t is announced that a new journal is
to appear as the organ of the science of
nazography. According to La Science en-
Famllle. the author of the system states
that nazography permits of diyining the
character, habits and inclination of peo-
pie by a simple inspection of their noses.
According to this science, it is desirable
that the nose should be as long as pos
sible, this being a sign of merit. power,
and genius. For example, Napoleon and
Caesar both had large noses a straight
nose denotes a just. serious. fine, judicious.
and energetic mind: the Roman nose, a
propensity for adventure; and a wide nose
with open nostrils is a mark of great
sensuality. A cleft nose shows benevo-
lence-it was the nose of st. Vincent de
Paul. The curved, tleshy nose is a mark
of domination and cruelty. Catharine de
Medici and Elizabeth of England had
noses of this kind. The curved. thin
nose, on the contrary, is a mark of a
brilliant mind. but vain and disposed to
be i%ronical. 1t is the nose of a dreamer.
a poet. or a critic. If the line of the
nose is re-entrant. that is. if the nose is
tnrned up, it denotes that its owner has
a weak mind. sometimes coarse. and gen
orally playful, pleasant, II frolicsome.-
London Scientific News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20
An Cnwholesone Occupation,

When a burial permit is brought in the
office to me and l see that the occupation
of the dead man was cigar making, l am
ready to guess at once that he died of
consumption. And my guess is right in
ninety-nine of n hundred cases. The
trade is a most unwholesome one. The
STOPPING position of the c%igarmaker and
his constant Inhalation of tobacco parti-
Giles invite diseases of the lungs, and they
generally come. Mortuary Clerk III
Globe Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20
Wealthy and Prosperous Chilli.

The national finances of Chill have al
ways been ably and ~conservatively man
aged. BY the last reports the annual ex-
penditures are S34. 900. 900 and the re-
ceipts $4,000. 900. Three millions are
devoted to public instruction, which is
free. as in the United States. in all
grades. and the country has 100 primary
schools. attended by more than 100, 600
children of both sexes In spite of her
costly wal with Peru the public debt of
Chill amounts to but $50. 600. 900, and
she has recently refunded her old foreign
debt in "A new 1 ID per cent. loan of over
sos, 000. 600, which was taken at par by
the London Rothschilds. 1t would seem
from this that the financial credit of the
little republic is second only to that of
the United States, Great Britain and
France. Aside from its agriculture, which
is highly prosperous, Chill is very rich in
mines of coal, copper and silver and in
the possession of guano and nitrate de-
posits. She exports large quantities of
wheat to Europe, and CHILEAN wines are
beginning to attract attention in France.
prizes having been awarded them at the
last exhibition in Bordeaux. Chicago
Tribune.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20
A Trip Abroad.

Miss Societe-Oh, Mr.. Blase, we had
such a delightful European trip! think
it so lovely to be able to go abroad!
Young Mr., BlaSe-Yaas?
Miss Societe-lIave you ever been in
Europe, Mr.. Blase.
Young Mr.. Blase-Oh yaas, occasion
ally.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20

An argument for ''arbor day" is
that the great Texas drouth, which eX-
dred miles, decreases in severity near the
pine tracts.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20

In 1866, 20. 100 barrels of rice were
raised in this country, and in 1856, 49,
600 barrels, South Carolina produced
more than any other state.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20

"A beautiful mirage of Lake Ontario
was recently observed at Palmyra, \. y,
which is II miles from the lake.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-20
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-27
The Building Associations.

The indianapolis association is issuing the eleventh
series of stock. The first payment of dues thereon
will begin April g
The North side will issue third series of stock
April The association has plenty of money to loan
at low premium.
The Star is of the most prosperous associations
in the city There is large demand for all its money
at good rate of interest
The observation-disclosures association has changed
its place of meeting to Dills drug store corner New
York and Delaware streets.
The Merchants is a conservative association Near
ly all its stockholders bondholders and but little
effort is made to loan money.
The Mechanics has just completed it's second year.
Money is being sold at and 8 cents premium per
share and there is not enough to supply all who ask
for it.
The organization of dime saving association in
Plymouth Church, for the benefit of the poor com
mended a wise move and it is urged that an asso-
citation of this kind should be managed Dy every
church in the city.
The Central is closing its affairs. It will pay ont
about two months earlier than terminating societies
usually do. new association viii be started under
the name. About 600 shares of stock have al
ready been subscribed.
In winding up the affairs of the Teutonia the nav
ment of dues will be continued until every share not
already redeemed can be paid In full. This will be
about Aug. l. The society began in 1881. and will
therefore be six and eight months old when it
expires. Terminating societies not expected to
more than six years. but the Teutona was unfor-
tunate in having lost about four thousand dollars by
two bank failures.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-27

The black bear is q alternating animal going
into his den (which generally consists of a hol
loweree a cave in the rocks) about the middle
of October and remaining in an apparently
sound sleep until the LIST of May. not having
tasted a mouthful of food in all that time. Yet
he comes out in nearly the same condition as he
went in, but loses flesh rapidly on leaving his
den. The young are brought forth about tho
middle of February, generally three at birth,
and are nursed by the mother from that time
until they leave the den. without the old bear
taking any nourishment, but supporting her
young the stored-up fat of the fall before
At the time of leaving the den the young
are about the size Of full-grown wood chuck.
and follow the mother wherever she goes The
only time bear will attack a person, as far as
my experience goes, is when the young are
medded with, and then he is an ugly customer
Bears are good tree-climbers, and generally
come down backward, but sometimes adopt a
novel as we'll expeditions way Of coming
down. They will swing under limb, hump up
their back AID drop to the ground with tre-
mendous thud. without sustaining the least in
jury. have seen them drop in that way from
a limb forty feet from the ground. and not even
stop to take breath before Looping off at q rafting
gait. And this reminds me of another popular
error in regard to them. and that is, that
they are slov-running animals, when the
facts are that unless they unconmonly fat
there are but few dogs that can outrun them. II
a dog was unfortunate enough to overtake ono
he would repent of his temerity, as . single
stroke from the paw Of bear will kill the largest
dog The bear viii eat almost any kind Of fesh